Wheat Variety 6PSQD81B Genetic Modification for Trait Combination

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current wheat breeding methods face challenges in combining desirable traits such as high seed yield, disease resistance, drought tolerance, and improved milling properties into a single wheat variety, while maintaining uniformity and stability across generations.

Innovation Solution

The development of the wheat variety 6PSQD81B, which involves genetic modification and locus conversion techniques, including transgenic approaches and backcrossing, to introduce traits like herbicide resistance, disease resistance, and improved nutritional quality, while ensuring homozygosity and phenotypic stability through rigorous breeding and selection methods.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple desirable traits are combined into a single wheat variety through traditional breeding methods, then the variety shows improved agronomic characteristics, but the process requires numerous intervention steps and takes significant time

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecombination of desirable traitsVSAvoidbreeding development time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs genetic transformation to directly modify the genetic parameters of wheat varieties, introducing desirable traits through transgenic approaches rather than traditional multi-generational breeding. This changes the fundamental parameter of trait introduction from phenotypic selection over generations to direct genetic modification, significantly reducing the time required to combine multiple desirable traits.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If traditional breeding methods are used to combine multiple traits, then desirable characteristics are achieved, but the process involves numerous steps with significant human intervention

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecombination of desirable traitsVSAvoidbreeding process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the mechanical and manual processes of traditional breeding (crossing, selection, and evaluation over multiple generations) with biotechnological methods including genetic transformation and molecular marker-assisted selection. This substitution reduces the complexity of human intervention by using standardized molecular techniques to achieve trait combination more efficiently.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Productivity

If genetic modification techniques are used to introduce traits, then trait introduction efficiency is improved, but ensuring homozygosity and phenotypic stability requires rigorous breeding and selection

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrait introduction efficiencyVSAvoidhomozygosity and phenotypic stability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs molecular marker-assisted selection as a feedback mechanism to monitor and ensure homozygosity and phenotypic stability in transgenic wheat varieties. By using molecular markers to track the inheritance and fixation of introduced traits, the breeding process can verify genetic uniformity at each generation, providing continuous feedback to maintain precision while achieving efficient trait introduction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11212982B2Wheat variety 6PSQD81B
Publication Date: 2022.01.04 PIONEER HI BREED INTERNATIONAL INC

AI summary

A wheat variety designated 6PSQD81B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PSQD81B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PSQD81B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PSQD81B with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or transformation of variety 6PSQD81B are disclosed. Methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 6PSQD81B and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods are also provided.